Anyone know of a good guide on setting up RAID?

[biggiesmallz]

Anyone know of a good guide on setting up RAID?

Particularly RAID 4 or 5 but others also.

Thanks in advance

 

[m1ldslide1]

How about the manual that came with your motherboard?

 

[biggiesmallz]

Originally posted by: m1ldslide1
How about the manual that came with your motherboard?

Really?

I don't remember any mentioning of setting up RAID.

The motherboard is about 5 or 6 years old!

 

[m1ldslide1]

Well I guess I assumed that you'd be using a newer motherboard that had RAID integrated into the chipset... So I guess you're using an add-in RAID controller?

 

[biggiesmallz]

Originally posted by: m1ldslide1
Well I guess I assumed that you'd be using a newer motherboard that had RAID integrated into the chipset... So I guess you're using an add-in RAID controller?

I'm still looking into what I will need.

 

[Luckyboy1]

Please provide links to both the mommaboard in question and the hard drives you plan to use.

 

[mikester]

Originally posted by: biggiesmallz
Anyone know of a good guide on setting up RAID?

Particularly RAID 4 or 5 but others also.

Thanks in advance

What are you wanting to do with this array? That will determine what RAID level is best for you. There is no "perfect" RAID setup for everyone - they are all tradeoffs to optimize the array for a particular usage. Knowing what your intended use will be is critical to selecting an array type.

For example, I use a RAID 3 array for my media server. A lot of people use RAID 5 because it is more common, but it is not really the best for that application. RAID 3 is basically striping with a parity drive, so it excels at reading large files, but there is a performance hit when writing or accessing smaller files. So for me, it is the perfect fit, but for say a network file server or database server, it would probably be an abysmal choice.